[Kzyxtalk] Hooray, hooray, the first of May.

[Marco McClean]

Hooray, hooray, the first of May.


The recording of last night's (2017-04-28) KNYO and KMEC Memo of the 
Air: Good Night Radio show is available to download and enjoy via 
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com


Lots of local action this time. Ellen stopped by, and Thomas, and John, 
and Jeff Wright (about his arrest and transport to jail a few weeks ago 
for standing his ground on being allowed to get his mail from the 
mailbox he paid for) (but in the course of discussing that it came up 
that Jeff, as well as having been an Air Force jet mechanic, spent six 
years of his youth seriously studying the cello). I read the first part 
of Jay Frankston's book about the man who keeps the keys; I'll be 
serializing that over the next few months, but it's appropriate to start 
it on the International Workers Day show because of the Spanish Civil 
War content. And about midnight a man who called himself Bo came in and 
talked to Jerry about, I thought, trying out the piano in the window to 
see if it was fixable, but it turned out he just wanted to play it, even 
though a few of the keys don't ring so much as thunk, and that's fine, 
there’s a microphone for out there. After about ten minutes, though, I 
started reading stories again anyway, and it's kind of nice with 
atmospheric improvisational piano in the background for about an hour.


And, before and after, the by now familiar broad range of this and that. 
Then Firesign Theater at the end (How Can You Be In Two Places At Once 
When You’re Not Anywhere At All). So, all in all, the usual unique radio 
experience for the /connoisseur/ with the attention span people used to 
have before quick-cut direction and popcorn media turned everyone into 
that cocaine addicted rat that keeps pumping the reward lever like a 
masturbating teenager.


Anyway, also at http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find directions 
to many non-radio-useful though worthwhile goods that I found while 
putting radio shows together. Items such as:


How government works now.
http://www.truth-out.org/art/item/40390-how-government-works-now


Everybody's prejudiced. An educational film from Canada.
https://archive.org/details/everybodysprejudiced


And your brain on drug policy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKXN6Vdr3g0


--
Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com